Medium Delirium

With these lines I tether myself to the fact of my existence.

  • misfortunes

    Last weekend, while traversing the short distance between the parked car and the pavement, I stepped squarely on a nail that speared through the soles of my sandals and sunk a little way into…

  • alot can change in a decade

    Speaking of things that are wonderfully archaic, this morning while waiting for the bus home I was approached by a tourist who asked me if the bus coming would take him to a certain…

  • sketches

    At Pilates last week, I found myself in a cosy little class of just three students. The other two were a middle aged couple, clearly regulars from the way they chatted breezily with the…

  • propped up and powering through

    Illness has a way of making you powerfully aware of the minutiae of the body’s mechanisms. I am afflicted with nothing more than the common cold, yet when I walk a little farther I…

  • bookmarks in the story of an ordinary life

    My posts here are few and far between, and yet every one seems to require a mention of how miserably hot the weather is. The general rule these days seems to be to get…

  • no rest for the sweaty

    Finally, a moment to sit and write for abit. I’ve been thinking over the past few days about how I spend an inordinate amount of time on heat management. The weather has been perilously,…

  • revisiting: HCMC & memories of The Best Pho

    Parenthood milestone – took my first holiday since getting pregnant, a pocket-sized weekend getaway to Ho Chi Minh. I flew off on a Friday afternoon and was back on the couch by Sunday night;…

  • The weather this week has been infernally hot and humid; the storms and cool weather of the Lunar New Year seem to be well and truly over, and we hurtle straight on into the…

  • slogan central

    One of the perks of not staring at a screen while out in public is getting to read the things people wear on their clothes. Mostly you get run-of-the-mill stuff like JUST DO IT…